How To See Your Followers On Facebook

Maintaining a list of your Facebook followers is critical, especially if you intend to use Facebook to market your brand or business. Then again, your Facebook fans are your true fans. Your Facebook followers are warm leads who can become devoted clients and increase your revenue and sales.

As a result, you can boost your online brand awareness by sharing engaging Facebook updates about your brand with your Facebook followers.

Here's how to see who's following you on Facebook, both on the site and the mobile app. Following this step-by-step approach, you can see the information and adequately alter your settings to get the most out of Facebook.

What Does It Mean To Follow Someone On Facebook?

Let's first answer the question, "what is following on Facebook?" before learning how to discover who follows you on Facebook.

You don't have to be friends with somebody on Facebook for their updates to appear in your News Feed. As a result, if you follow someone who isn't a friend, their public updates will appear in your feed as if they were Facebook friends.

Furthermore, if you enable others to follow you via Facebook, your public posts will appear in your followers' News Feeds, even if you aren't Facebook friends with them. It includes your images, posts, and comments you write on other people's public posts. And you might only be informed of it if you look for it.

How To View Your Facebook Followers On A Desktop Computer

In the web version of Facebook, you can see your followers but not the overall number of individuals who follow you. Here's how to see who is watching you on Facebook if you're on the browser version.

To start, log in to your Facebook account using a web browser and proceed as follows:

1. After you've logged in, enter your name in the sidebar to access your profile.

2. Click Friends under the Profile menu.

3. select the More menu to the right of the Friends section.

4. Select Followers from the dropdown menu to see all of your Facebook followers.

How To Check Whoever Follows You On Facebook On A Mobile Device

The Facebook mobile app allows you to view your follower list and the number of individuals following you on Facebook. That way, you can see how many people have unfollowed and followed you on Facebook over time.

To view how many followers you have and who is following you on Facebook, follow these steps:

To load your profile, tap the profile image button in the top-left section of the site.
Click See Your About Info in the profile menu.
Scroll to the bottom of the page. Then, under Followers, select See All to get a display of all your Facebook followers.
The number of followers may be found in the top-right section of the page.

Need Help Finding Your Facebook Followers? Why Is This So?

If you attempted to see your Facebook followers on the phone app but couldn't, your app may need to be updated. Ensure that you update it via the App Store or Google Play.

Furthermore, you need to have Facebook followers to be able to check them. As a result, even if you followed the following procedures, you would only see your followers if there were none.

If your Facebook account is fresh, you may not see this option because you still need followers. Alternatively, you may need to change to another Facebook account.

Another explanation could be that your current account privacy settings do not enable others to follow you on Facebook—we'll discuss how to modify this below.

How To Allow The Public To Follow You On Facebook

When you prevent the general Public from following you, your chances of gaining additional Facebook followers are reduced.

People not on your friend list will only be able to follow you on Facebook when you have this setting enabled. Nevertheless, you can set your follow option to "Public" so that anyone, not just your friends, can follow you.

Navigate to your profile.
Tap the round Account dropdown symbol in the menu bar's extreme top-right corner.
Select Settings & Privacy from the list.
Select Settings.
Click Privacy in the Settings menu's sidebar.
From the sidebar, click on Public Posts.
Click the Friends menu to the right of the People Who Can Follow Me option.
Choose Public to allow anybody to follow you, including individuals who aren't Facebook friends.

How to modify your Facebook mobile app followers' preferences

To access your profile, launch the Facebook mobile app and select the image symbol in the top-left corner.
To the right of Edit Profile, click the three horizontal dots (below your name).
Choose Follow Settings.
Please tick the box next to Who Can Follow Me.

How To Maintain Control Of Your Facebook Followers

Regular monitoring of your followers is essential if you use Facebook to advertise your brand or business. It's a great approach to understanding your following patterns and controlling what people see about you.

With this in mind, ensure that you adjust your Facebook privacy settings so that your postings only reach the people you want to see.

Can I Dismiss Unwanted Followers?

Unfortunately, there is no way to remove/delete followers or only certain people from the follower list. You can, however, individually block unwanted followers. When you block someone, they won't be able to follow you, message you, or even read your profile. You can stop and then unblock someone if you want to remove them from the follower list but do not want to block them.

To block a follower:

Navigate to the Followers section and choose any profile.
Select Block after clicking the More icon.
Tap Block one more to confirm.

You can also modify your privacy settings so that only people you know can follow you.

Conclusion

Seeing your real Facebook followers can inform many decisions; whether to post or comment on what, who to unfollow or mute, and even when you decide to sell your Facebook account. Knowing how many people view your posts helps justify spending time on them.